Science Book Picks for 2013

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12/13/2013

Dec. 13, 2013

Science Book Picks for 2013

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Do you have a favorite science-themed book from this past year? We’re making our list, and checking it twice, when Pulitzer Prize-winning science journalist Deborah Blum and Brainpickings.org editor Maria Popova join Ira Flatow to share their top science, technology, and environmental books of 2013.

Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital, by Sheri Fink	On Looking: Eleven Walks With Expert Eyes, by Alexandra Horowitz
The Sixteenth Rail: The Evidence, the Scientist, and the Lindbergh Kidnapping, by Adam Schrager	Cosmic Apprentice: Dispatches from The Edge of Science, by Dorion Sagan (Carl Sagan’s son)
Ninety Percent of Everything: Inside Shipping, the Invisible Industry That Puts Clothes on Your Back, Gas in Your Car and Food on Your Plate, by Rose George	Wild Ones: A Sometimes Dismaying, Weirdly Reassuring Story About Looking at People Looking at Animals in America, by Jon Mooallem
Does My Goldfish Know Who I Am? by Gemma Elwin Harris	Smarter Than You Think, by Clive Thompson
The Inheritor’s Powder: A Tale of Arsenic, Murder, and the New Forensic Science, by Sandra Hempel	Einstein and The Quantum: The Quest of the Valian Swabian, by A. Douglas Stone

Produced by Alexa Lim, Associate Producer

Guests

Deborah Blum
Winner, Pulitzer Prize
Professor, Journalism
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Madison, Wisconsin
Maria Popova
Editor and founder, brainpickings.org
Brooklyn, New York